Hi,
Are you using devfs? I have seen problems with console access related to
devfs - although in my case the failed to get initial console happened
when I did not configure devfs. Also, where are the athlon patches coming
from - they are nothing we distribute. If you can I would take the latest
cvs tree as your starting point, and check the config options carefully.
An alternate starting point would be the latest kernel source RPM
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/XFS-RH7.0-rpms/kernel-source-2.4.0-SGI_XFS_PR.i386.rpm
although this would entail more work getting all the code into a single tree.
Steve
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem as of late with our XFS test box (and I haven't
> had the time to take a look at it until today). The kernel boots,
> mounts the root partition (XFS) and tries to open the initial console
> and fails. If I pass the rw parameter to the kernel, it's able to get
> an initial console, eventually the root filesystem gets remounted ro
> and the boot fails (this is probably a problem in the SuSE boot
> scripts). This started happening arround the time 2.4.0 was checked
> in. At the moment I'm working my way thru this:
>
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS-test13-pre3+athlon.20001228.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS-test13-pre3+athlon.20001229.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS-test13-pre3+athlon.20001230.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS-test13-pre3+athlon.20001231.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS-test13-pre3+athlon.20010101.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS-test13-pre3+athlon.20010102.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS-prerelease+athlon.20010103.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS-prerelease+athlon.20010104.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010106.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010107.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010108.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010109.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010110.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010111.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010112.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010113.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010114.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010115.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010116.tar.gz
> kernel-2.4.0-XFS+athlon.20010118.tar.gz
>
> (the missing builds are due to problems in the box that actually builds
> the kernels)
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
>
> TIA,
>
> --
> Marcelo